Image of the DayOn Feb. 22, engineers successfully installed ESA’s European Service Module Propulsion Qualification Module (PQM) at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility...Charles Smoot was employed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where he began laying the foundation of a cooperative program...A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket soars skyward into an aurora over Alaska following a 5:14 a.m. EST, Feb....When viewed from a distance with the sun directly behind Cassini, the larger, brighter craters really stand out on moons...A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is...NASA provider SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft are vertical at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...On March 2, 1963 Engineer Thomas Byrdsong checks the Apollo/Saturn 1B Ground-wind-loads model in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel at Langley...Pine Island Glacier has shed another block of ice into Antarctic waters. The loss was tiny compared to the icebergs...Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency shared this photograph from the International Space Station on...When seen up close, the F ring of Saturn resolves into multiple dusty strands. This Cassini view shows three bright...The Andromeda constellation is one of the 88 modern constellations and should not be confused with our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy.Jeanette Scissum joined NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964 after earning bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Alabama...A sunrise photo of Edwards Air Force Base’s Rogers Dry Lake was taken after heavy rainfall in southern California. NASA’s...The Larsen Ice Shelf is situated along the northeastern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming places on...Seen from outside, Enceladus appears to be like most of its sibling moons: cold, icy and inhospitable.The Calabash Nebula, pictured here is a spectacular example of the death of a low-mass star like the sun.This panorama, photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, shows nearly the full length of Lake Powell, the...Martha Chaffee, widow of Roger Chaffee, Sheryl Chaffee, daughter, and Roger Purvenas, son of Sheryl Chaffee, left, along with acting...Dione's lit hemisphere faces away from Cassini's camera, yet the moon's darkened surface features are dimly illuminated in this image,...Astronauts, from the left, Gus Grissom, Ed White II and Roger Chaffee stand near Cape Kennedy's Launch Complex 34 during...Uranus' moon Miranda is shown in a computer-assembled mosaic of images obtained Jan. 24, 1986, by the Voyager 2 spacecraft....The JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped this shot of Jupiter’s northern latitudes.In a lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers simulated conditions that astronauts in space suits would experience...The release of the first images today from NOAA’s newest satellite, GOES-16, is the latest step in a new age...The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made one of its ring-grazing passes...A grid of small polygons on the Martian rock surface near the right edge of this view may have originated...Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA at work outside the International Space Station on Jan. 13, 2017, in a...This image of a crescent Jupiter and the iconic Great Red Spot was created by a citizen scientist (Roman Tkachenko)...This image of a well-preserved unnamed elliptical crater in Terra Sabaea, is illustrative of the complexity of ejecta deposits forming...Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson along with Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough successfully installed three new adapter plates and hooked up...Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency photographed the Rocky Mountains from his vantage point in...In an effort to improve fuel efficiency, NASA and the aircraft industry are rethinking aircraft design. Inside the 8’ x...Here is a view of Earth and its moon, as seen from Mars. It combines two images acquired on Nov....Astronomers have discovered what happens when the eruption from a supermassive black hole is swept up by the collision and...Impact craters expose the subsurface materials on the steep slopes of Mars. However, these slopes often experience rockfalls and debris...Floating high above the hydrocarbon lakes, wispy clouds have finally started to return to Titan's northern latitudes.A satellite is ejected from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Small Satellite Orbital Deployer on the International Space Station...This galaxy acts as an astronomical laser, beaming out microwave emission rather than visible light.Sunlight truly has come to Saturn's north pole. The whole northern region is bathed in sunlight in this view from...Just hours after the winter solstice, a mass of energetic particles from the Sun smashed into the magnetic field around...
